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THE ATTALIO SF SICsC STAY IN BID Number 19: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1957 Price Five Cents Crowd Hinders m Integration At Little Mock By KEITH FULLER LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 23—UP)—The bloody assaults of an inflamed crowd of white rnen and women thwarted an integration attempt at Little Rock' Central High School today, but President Eisenhower has warned that further violence will be met with federal forces. Eight Negro students slipped in to the school during a wild melee this morning but were removed about noon when officials feared the fighting mad crowd would be come an uncontrollable mob. It was a wild day of hate and violence in which at least 11 news men were assaulted. The violence brought these swift developments: 1. President Eisenhower said he would use the full force of federal power to deal with further vio lence and issued a proclamation ordering the rioters to cease and desist. 2. Cov. Orval Fan bus, attending the Southern Governors’ Confer ence at Sea Island, Ga., said the President could not send federal troops into Arkansas without the governor’s request and, “I don’t plan to make any such request.” Faubus said today’s violence was what he had tried to avoid when he encircled the high school Ivith National Guardsmen for three weeks until a federal court Jast week ordered him to stop in terfering with integration. 3. Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann of Little Rock said the “seeds of hate, carefully sown and tended, bore their ugly fruit this day.” It was Mann who first chal lenged Faubus’ contention that violence was imminent when the governor put guardsmen around Centr-al High with orders to keep Negroes out. 4. Lt. Gov. Nathan Gordon, act ing executive while Faubus is away, said he would call out the National Guard upon written re quest from Mann. 5. A Negro spokesman said the eight students will not go back to the school until President Eisen hower assures them of protection “against the mob.” The day’s violence started at 8:45 a.m. and continued until an hour or so after the students had been removed. Flu 11 i Days Morning News Jarrin’ John Gets Injured John Crow, bruising Aggie halfback, was injured Saturday in the Maryland game on this play when the Terps’ tackle, Fred Cole clamped a vise-like grip on the All Ameri can’s left leg. Crow had carried the ball four times for a total of 12 yards. Aggies, Roddy Osborne, 12, and Loyd Taylor look on as Crow is halted. Aggies Win Despite Sour Weather, Little Support By JOE BUSER Texas Aggies pounded out a sog gy 21-13 victory over Maryland in the Cotton Bowl Saturday in spite of sour weather and a virtually non-existent 12th Man. Russell to Confer In Washington,I).C. Prof. Daniel Russell of the Agri cultural Economics and Sociology Department will be in Washington, D.C. Sept. 22-24 to confer with In ternational Cooperation Adminis tration officials concerning his work in El Salvador this summer. Russell is an old hand in this field since this is his third tour of foi’eign duty. Parts of his manual on rural community development for underdeveloped areas and his helpful hints on rural community organization now have been dupli cated and circulated in 15 or more languages. Other interests Russell has in his Washington trip are to discuss training programs in community development for foreign service workers and students from foreign countries. Funeral Services Scheduled For Dr. John Delaplane Euneral services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Hillier Funeral Home chapel in Bryan for Dr. John Paul Delaplane, head of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, who died Sunday. In terment will be in the Bryan City Cemetery. Dr. Delaplane was a nationally recognized figure in research on virus diseases of poultry, and was particularly well known for his work in connection with isolation of the agent causing ornithosis in chickens and turkeys. A native of Greenville, Ohio, he graduated from the high school in that town in 1925, received his doc tor of veterinary medicine degree from Ohio State University in 1929 and a master of science de gree from the same university in 1931. He was made head of, the De partment of Veterinary Microbiol ogy in 1958, the position he held at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ethel Delaplane; and two daughters, Cynthia, a student of Sam Houston State Teachers Col lege, and Jane, a Stephen F. Au stin high school student. They reside at 1600 Woodland, Bryan. The Aggies played sluggish foot ball in Dallas, and the loss of John Crow in the first quarter didn’t help their cause any. But the team plugged away at th,e under-rated Terps despite rain that reached downpour proportions! by the final gun, while the majority of the Corps evidently cheered them on to victory from television sets in cozy, dry rooms. Those Aggies that made the first “unofficial Corps trip” stood their ground, however, until the rain started to fall. Lindsey Nelson told the million plus TV viewers: “Look across the way, the fa mous 12th Man of Aggieland stand ing their ground, despite the rain.” Radar Tower Rises On Campus Center Bars Available Under R.O.C.S. Opportunities for college stu dents to become Naval officers were announced recently hy Ad miral Walter C. Schnidler, Com mandant of the Eighth Naval Dis trict. College students between 17 and 27% years of age, except seniors, are eligible to’ apply for Reserve Officer Candidate School. A small number of students are selected each year by the Navy for officer training and those selected attend eight-week courses for two sum- vnei’s. Upon completion of train ing and no later than the summer after graduation, the student is commissioned as an ensign in the Naval Reserve. Students interested in this pro gram should write to the Procure ment C o m m a n d, Commandant, Eighth Naval District, New Orle ans, 40, Louisiana, before February 8. And to demonstrate what he meant, the cameras panned the stands just as the famous 12th Man scurried for the shelter of the up per deck, observers noted. Only the Aggie Band and a cou ple of hundred other Ags with stood the elements during the last quarter. Not because ■ they had raincoats or because they were forced, but because they wanted to. As one very wet bandsman put it, “The team was out there play ing in the rain; the least I could do was watch from the stands.” The college made every possible effort to make it convenient for the boys in khaki to attend the Dallas game; classes began an hour ear lier than usual Saturday to insure everyone plenty of time to get to the game. Yet only an estimated 40 per cent of the Corps turned out for the game. The remainder of the famous 12th man, which is known across the nation as the student body that “stands” with their team, appar ently watched the game over TV or listened to it over the radio. Security Men Hold School Here In MSC Industrial security officers from across the nation opened the sixth Industrial Plant Pro tection School of Texas yes terday in the Memorial Stu dent Center. The meeting is sched uled to last through Saturday, Sept. 28. Feature of the meeting will bo a panel discussion, “The Role of Industry in Civil Defense”, which will deal with industry’s role in aiding their community in time of enemy attack or national disaster. The school, the only permanent plant security school in the nation according to Wallace D. Beasley, coordinator of the program, which is a part of the Engineering Ex tension Seiwice, will also have top industrial officials and specialists as guest instructors on public re lations, theft prevention and de tection, care and preservation of evidence, and prevention and de tection of sabotage. Col. George E. Painter, provost marshal section, Fourth Army Headquai’ters, Fort Sam Houston, will act as moderator for the pan el. Other members of the panel in clude Fred A. Randall, insurance supervisor, Carbide Chemical Corp., and chairman of the Texas City Industrial Mutual Aid System; In spector C. O. Layne, coordinatoi of police resources and civil de fense activities, Department of Public Safety, Austin; J. B. De- Laune, plant protection superinten dent, Cities Service Refining Co., Lake Charles, La.; A. T. Deere, general superintendent, industrial security, Dow Chemical Co., Free port and Walter C. Ilgenfritz, di rector, technical advisoi’y office, Region 5, Federal Civil Defense Administration, Denton. Hospital Received 600 Yesterday Flu at A&M took on even bigger proportions yesterday as about GOO men reported to the College Hospital to raise the total cases to over 1,500. From noon Sunday until 1:30 that night some 500 men, mostly Corps members, staggered and dragged over to the Hospital. Crawling through both the front and back doors, the men occupied every one of the hospital’s 140 beds. More than 125 students had been taken home hy their parents at 1 p.m. yesterday. At the present time over 1,000 men are bed-ridden in the military dormitories. Only 36 civilians have reported to the hospital with the flu. Because of the increasing : * numbers of men stricken with . flu, the hospital was forced to return patients with temperatures of less than 102 degrees back to their dorms to be taken care of by their respective outfits. All Corps companies and squad rons have been issued medical sup plies to take care of their men. At noon yesterday, the Dining Hall Steak Fry Called Off The Town Hall steak fry sched uled for tonight has been postponed according to C. G. (Spike) White, director of recreation and enter tainment for the Department of Student Activities. “We will have it when the flu epidemic is over,” White said. Basilio Scores Split Decision Over Robinson By JACK HAND NEW YORK, Sept. 23—UP) Blood smeared Carmen Bas ilio, a dogged body puncher, won the world’s middleweight championship from S u g a r Ray Robinson, 37, on a split deci sion last night after 15 gruelling rounds at Yankee Stadium. There were cheers, mingled with a few catcalls from the crowd of about 35,000 in the ball park this cool fall evening as Basilio was hoisted high in mid ring by his co-managers and handlers. Just when Robinson appeared to have run out of gas, he staged a sensational last gasp finish in the late rounds to make it close. Both judges voted for Basilio, the welterweight champion, but Referee A1 Berl had Robinson out front 9-6. Judge Artie Aidala scored it 9 5 1 for Basilio and Judge Bill Recht 8 6 1. The AP card was 6 6 3. A radar tower capable of pre dicting storms within a 250-mile radius of College Station is being set up between Goodwin and Biz- zell Hall by the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology. It will go into operation early in Oc tober according to Dr. M. G. H. Ligda, associate professor of the department. “The equipment, valued at S200,- 000, was loaned to A&M by the Air Force Cambridge Research Center,” Ligda said. The radar unit, model AN/CPS-1, will transmit signals to a repeater scope in a room on the third floor of Goodwin Hall, allowing students to observe storms with the latest techniques in weather analysis. The unit will be used for research in various phases of Weather such as toimadoes and hurricanes. A&M’s unit is one of the three non-military models of the type in the United States. The other two are located at McGill University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The tower is 75 feet high from the ground to the platform and has high-voltage electrical equip ment on it, Ligda said. “I hope students will not try to watch parades or try to take pic- tui’es from the tower,” Ligda said. “They, may not only injure them selves but they might also damage the equipment.” Sqdn. 23 Needs One More Man Squadron 23, an organization for men desiring to be in the Corps but who do not have a contract, lacks one man having enough for an outfit, said Gary Lemmon, first group commander. Thirty-nine have signed up, in cluding two day students. “Interviews for the commanding officer will be conducted the latter part of this week,” Lemmon said. “The first sergeant will be left to the discretion of the C. O.” Those interested should contact Edward W. Wyatt, acting C. O., in Dorm 9, Room 213. handed out over 1,000 meals for the men in the doi’ms. Many out fits are buying juice and boullion for the flu victims in their dorms. At the hospital over 18,000 cold capsules were dispensed within the last five days and over 12 gal lons of cough syrup have been con sumed. Every hospital patient re ceives at least two penicillin shots each day and over 600 were given yesterday. Normally there are 24 on the hospital staff, but over 48 people, including volunteers are maintain ing a high rate of efficiency dur ing the hectic sick call. Gray La dies, Red Cross members in Bryan, have been on the job for two days or more and are working eight and ten hour shifts. All the local hospitals have of fered assistance and supplies if they are needed. The local medi cal society is assisting by having several doctors on call. Two temporary nurses have al ready been attacked hy the flu and even though all the staff members have been inoculated with vaccine it is surprising that more are not sick. A spokesman in the State Health Department Laboratory has pi’edic- ted that more cases of the flu in the state will be diagnosed before the end of the week. Up to now, none of the local cases has been diagnosed as Asiatic flu, however, a report from the state lab is expected within the next day or two which will defin itely tell whether or not A&M has been invaded by the Asian variety. Weather Today College Station yesterday soak ed up 1.2 inches of rain as the cold front moved through this area meeting a low pressure area from the Gulf of Mexico, college meteorologists said this morning. Yesterday’s high temperatures reached only a mild 68 degrees while this morning’s low at 7:40 a.m. was a pleasant 63.7 degrees. Relative humidity at 8 a.m. this morning was a damp 71 per cent. Meteorologists fox-ecast consid erable cloudiness in this area with mild temperatures through tomor- I'OW. —Battalion Staff Photo CHS Coeds Precede Consolidated Band Out in front of the CHS Band this year will be Kathy Gould, Drum Major Anne Williamson and Mary Varvel (1. to r.). Car ol Dew, not shown, completes the quartet of majorettes. Dr. Fledges Retires After 45 Years Dr. Charles C. Hedges, professor and worker in the A&M Depart ment of Chemistry for 45 years, retired this semester. Born in Walton, Kentucky, he re ceived his B.S. degree from the University of Kentucky in 1906 and continued his studies at Cornell Univei - sity where he received the Ph. D. degree in chemistry and bacteriology in 1912. From Cornell he came directly to A&M as as sociate professor of chemistry. From 1913 until 1947, Dr. Hedges served as head of the department. In 1947 he went on modified service as professor of organic chemistry, serving in that position until this fall. During the period of 1936- 1940 he also filled the position of vice-dean of engineei'ing.